, 1887-10-15

having sailed from MarSellleS on August
80, with simply her crew and cargo. she
touched at Naples for the purpose OF TAX
ms on board immigrants, a large number
of whom were Sicilians. 1
The report of the Consul at NAPLES shows
that for the five weeks previous to the
date of sailing there had been much chole-
ra in and around Naples, and that it was
notknown how long the Sicilian immigrants
had renamed at Naples, nor whether they
brought the disease with them from Sicily
or contracted it in that city. No water or
provisions were taken aboard at Naples.
The steamer sailed on September 8. Ihe
captain had intended to touch at Palermo
for the purpose of taking aboard some
forty immigrants, but the ships surgeon
earnestly protested, in view OF the prooa-
bility of receiving cholera from That CITY,
and the captain determined to sail dlrecG
for New York without touching IN Sicily.
On examining the notes OF Illness
as recorded by the surgeon, IL was
found that q child of some eleven
wears of age came under the surgeons
charge on account OF Intestinal trouOleS'
These seemed to be relieved III the course
of a few DAYS by simple remedies, and the
surgeon did not think that it was cholera.
On September 10 the ships baker was sud.
denly seized with symptoms OF cereoral
congestion, great oppression In breathing,
violent vomiting and some cramps, put the
surgeon attributed this attack to frlgnG
from a nightmare or to violent anger. he
remained I'll until the 14th, when the notes
for that date state that he had so tar re-
covered as to enable him to prooaOly
resume his duties the next day. a low
DAYS later the same man had a relapse, the
symptoms being characterized as hysterl"
cal. and again attributed to fright; III the
meantime, the first recognized case OF
cholera had occur red, as above stated, on
the 10Th, and the subsequent course OF the
endemic on the ship has already been re-
ported in the Herald. DIR. Shakespeare
expressed the belief that these two cases
were also cholera.
From the shin the party went to HOff-
man Island, where about $50 passengers
are under observation. There they found
another man suffering from cholera. He
had been eating some mussels that he had
nirkpd off the rocks aud claimed that be
was simply suffering from indigestion. He
protested loudly against being taken to
the hospital for such d trivial cause. The
doctors decided that he was suffering from
o opnuine attack of cholera III its early
stages and he was sent to SWlnOurne
Island. The indications were that he
would have a severe attack.
The other passengers, DR.. Shakespeare
said, appeared to be in good health ana
spirits. Afer the inspection the doctors
visited the fumigatlng rooms. There are
three of these, and all were at work. A
considerable amount Of the baggage has
already been %fumigated and is lying in the
store.house. The f%umigating rooms are
2Ox4O feet and are so nearly alright that
only slight traces of the gas were p~erceptible
on the outside. The garments are separa'
ted and hung up on lines so that the fumes
of the sulphurous acid gas can permeate
them at all points. They remain i'll the
room for several hours. e4 is.
DR.. Shakespeare said thatinthe Medlterra-
mean ports the authorities disinfected bag
gageinmass as a rule, andthu the tumesOf
the gas came in direct contact only with
tho surface of the bundles. Quarantine
observation in Italy is of the most perfume
tory character. At the time of the .eplde-
mic at Palermo in 1885 Professor Pagliani,
of the University of Genoa, was commits
stoned by the Italian Minister of the aInte7
rior TO visit Palermo and investigate the
origin of the epidemic there and report his
observations. Upon leaving that city,
before the termination of the epidemic
there. he was obliged, with other passen-
GERS, to undergo a quarantine OF seven days
at tho official station which had been es-
tabIished for the whole western. coast of
Italy at the island of Aslnara. OF the